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PART I - THE PLACE OF MEANING TALK IN SOCIO-LINGUISTIC PRACTICE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Mark Norris Lance
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
John O'Leary-Hawthorne
Affiliation:
Syracuse University, New York
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Summary

What is the meaning of a word? Let us attack this question by asking, first, what is an explanation of the meaning of a word.

(Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue Book, p. 1)
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The Grammar of Meaning
Normativity and Semantic Discourse
, pp. 17 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1997

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